"Ristroph’s robot flies by flapping four wings that are arranged around the robot’s “waist.” The wings move up and down and it looks like a jellyfish, though strictly speaking the aerodynamics are probably a bit more like a moth.
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ProDigits can replace any or all fingers on a hand; each replacement digit has a tiny motor and gear box mounted at the base. Movement is controlled by a computer chip in the prosthesis. The individual, motorized fingers are a new and promising de...
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Details are about as light as can be on this one, but it looks like Japan's Ito Electronics has developed some sort of special "packaging technology" that can make OLED displays fully waterproof, which could be particularly used for watc...
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Sanjiv Singh, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has been developing robots for use in large-scale agriculture. Singh says there are many opportunities for robots in farms and orchards, from weeding to harvesting, that could make agricultu...
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an international team of scientists have discovered a novel one dimensional ice chain structure built from pentagons that may prove to be a step toward the development of new materials which can be used to seed clouds and cause rain.
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Two US groups have announced transistors almost 1000 times smaller than those in use today, and a version of flash memory that could store all the books in the US Library of Congress in a square 4 inches (10 cm) across.
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